| Question | Answer |
| Ego psychology | developed by Erikson; Anna Freud was a central figure |
| Ego psychology | stresses psychosocial development through the lifespan |
| Object-relations theory | form of analytic treatment that involves exploration of internal unconscious identifications and internalization of external objects (aspects of significant other people) |
| Object relations | interpersonal relationships as they are represented intrapsychically |
| Self-psychology | emphasizes how we use interpersonal relationships (self objects) to develop our sense of self |
| Margaret Mahler | believed that the resolution of the Oedipus complex is less critical |
| Margaret Mahler | emphasized child’s progression from a symbiotic relationship with a maternal figure towards separation and individuation |
| Mahler's Normal Infantile autism | phase in first 3 or 4 weeks of life where infant is unable to differentiate itself from its mother |
| Mahler's Symbiosis | 3rd to 8th month, infant has a pronounce dependency on mother |
| Mahler's Separation-individuation process | begins in 4th or 5th month where child experiences separation but still turns to mother for confirmation and comfort and around 36th month, move towards constancy of self and object |
| Brief Psychodynamic Therapy (BPT) | applies principles of psychodynamic theory within a preestablished time limit of usually 10-25 session |
| Time-limited dynamic psychotherapy (TLDP) | aim of therapy is not simply symptom reduction but changing a client’s ingrained, repetitive patterns of interpersonal relatedness |
